The secret of mans success resides in his insight into the moods o

The secret of mans success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. – Benjamin Franklin

Tact is knowing how far to go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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